I.W,W. AGITATORS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 7

I.W,W. AGITATORS.

LEADERS ALL GATHERED IN. CHICAGO, Sept. 29. Indictment of 166 officials and.members of the I.W!W. late . yesterday followed by the arrest of at least fifty here "is only, a beginning" m the Government's campaign to wipe out sedition and disloyalty, federal officials declared today. I Extermination of anti-war propaganda will be carried into every suspicious organisation m this country. Indictment of scores of LW.W.'s at Chicago is to be followed by suppression of any and all people and institutions directly or indirectly aiding the cause of Germany, officials stated to-day. " United States District Attorney Cline to-day statedthat fifty- arrests had /been made m cities outside of Chicago. Cline.said the Government had' learned the meinbersliip of the I. W.W. m. this ioountry was between 250.C00 and 300,000, a much larger estimate than had previously been made. diaries Bennett,; Harris Allman and P. R. Green, alleged to be I. W.W. leaders, are under arrest at Portland, Ore. Their arrests are belieyed to be connected with the 166 indictihents returned m Chicago yesterday, * but federal authorities, who have* thofrt m ousted}*, refuse to make a statement.^ Evidence obtained m the nation-wide raids of I. W.W. headquarters early this month on which-' the indictments were based iV alleged' to7have revealed the existence "61 "'ii' conspiracy- '-with •ramificatibii^ extended into', every .State, -with Chicago as its centre! Letters .and cancelled cheques are said to show that German money was employed largely ' m financing the conspiracy, mainly through Austrian members of' the organisation. ' William D. Haywood', international secretary and- treasurer, was,' held' under £5000 bonds." ;. Othei' leaders' binds wel'e fixed ,at £2000, eaehi' They are Richard ; Brazier- Of Spokane^". member*, of .the. executive board ; r George Andreychine, iof Duluthy Minn.. rmanager of the publicity bureau; Ralph 'H.lGhapliny of Chicage, editor and manager of '-Solidarity," official I. W.W. organ ; Valdimir Lossieff, of Chicago, trand&M'-*for I.W.W. literature; Bert. Lortbn, of Chicago, manager of the "recruiting station" here; Charles Rothfisher, of Cleveland, editor of "A Bergumkas" ; Charles Plahn, of Detroit; and Herbert Mahler, of Seattle. None was able to furnish bonds. Other members known to hare been Arrested here were Ea.yl yLewis, of Huntington, Va. ; James .Rufi of Des Moines, Iowa; Edward Johnson, of Youngstown, O. ; and Herbert Coolie, of San Fran- j CISCO. 7' ' P'P r "'■''" ""■'"" I